I'm running a bit late with this. Like a month.The winner will be decided by February10 and be presented on that date at the Boston Society of Film Critcs Award Ceremony at the Brattle Theatre. Send in your votes now!

The Alpha Wolf in "The
Grey."

Iggy, the Iguana in Jafar Panahi "This is Not a Film"

I know what you're saying -- we had iguanas a couple of years ago
for "Bad Lieutenant."

"Boston Phoenix" stalwart correspondent Harlan Jacobson is busy watching movies and breathing thin air at the Sundance Film Festival. Here's the first of his dispatches from the event that will be the arbiter of the year's independent movies:

It's raining in Park
City, which only has snow and Sundance to
recommend coming here, the way Palm Springs only
has the sun and no dance, or Tombstone
only has a graveyard.